OPEN CALL FLACC 2023 Festival: Cuatro Vientos
¡Bienvenides/x/o/a!
We invite applications from all Latine and Indigenous choreographers of the Americas to be considered for our 10th Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers on Oct. 27-29, at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco, California.
As FLACC celebrates becoming a double digit, we simultaneously look back on a powerful decade of resistance and begin a new one. Completing ten years of groundbreaking programming we open the portal to a new Latine future in contemporary dance.
FLACC 2023 Curatorial theme is Cuatro Vientos (Four Winds).
FLACC 2023 stands at the crossroads of four directions to listen to the winds of change, remember those who have gone before us and contemplate what lies ahead collectively and individually. The festival is taking place on Oct. 27-Nov. 5 coinciding with the fall season of El Día de los Muertos.
As we travel on the creative journey we invite artists to lift a wet finger to the air to feel what direction the wind is blowing personally and/or politically. Cuatro Vientos is a curatorial theme that invites the artist into a time-space creative inquiry about their sense of direction, their relationship to the natural world, beginnings, endings, numerical wisdom, embodied ofrendas and rituals Cuatro Vientos provides the stage to ask dance makers “Where have you(we) been? Where are you(we) now? And where are you(we) going?”
Deadline to apply: JUNE 6th 11:59pm Pacific Time
For details click on the button below. It will lead you to a google form.
We invite applications from all Latine and Indigenous choreographers of the Americas to be considered for our 10th Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers on Oct. 27-29, at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco, California.
As FLACC celebrates becoming a double digit, we simultaneously look back on a powerful decade of resistance and begin a new one. Completing ten years of groundbreaking programming we open the portal to a new Latine future in contemporary dance.
FLACC 2023 Curatorial theme is Cuatro Vientos (Four Winds).
FLACC 2023 stands at the crossroads of four directions to listen to the winds of change, remember those who have gone before us and contemplate what lies ahead collectively and individually. The festival is taking place on Oct. 27-Nov. 5 coinciding with the fall season of El Día de los Muertos.
As we travel on the creative journey we invite artists to lift a wet finger to the air to feel what direction the wind is blowing personally and/or politically. Cuatro Vientos is a curatorial theme that invites the artist into a time-space creative inquiry about their sense of direction, their relationship to the natural world, beginnings, endings, numerical wisdom, embodied ofrendas and rituals Cuatro Vientos provides the stage to ask dance makers “Where have you(we) been? Where are you(we) now? And where are you(we) going?”
Deadline to apply: JUNE 6th 11:59pm Pacific Time
For details click on the button below. It will lead you to a google form.
KICKING off FLACC's 10th year anniversary this June
Piñata Dance COllective
Cuatro Vientos: Middle of Nowhere is kicking off FLACC's 10th year anniversary this June. It is a multimedia dance-theater production that confronts fears and strategies of walking alone. The Piñata Dance Collective investigates the physiology of fear, the concept of freedom and finding risk and refuge in the natural world. It’s inspired by Choreographer, Liz Duran Boubion's 10-week residency in the Mojave desert during the pandemic and is dedicated to raising awareness and building solidarity for murdered and missing women across the globe. Part of the show is based on research, workshops and conversations with artists and women who are working with families actively searching for missing and murdered loved ones in Mexico.
June 8 & 10 at Joe Goode Annex (SF)
June 16-17 at Highways Performance Space (LA)
Artistic Director
Liz Duran Boubion
Core Dancers
Rosie Dater-Merton
Catalina O'Connor
Abigail Hinson
Clairey Evangelho
Sound Design Mike Daddona
Musical compositions: Sovoso, Laura Inserra
Costumes
Jamielyn Duggan
Lighting
Zoë Klein
Artistic Contributions
Jen Hong
Lindsey Red-Tail
Stream Gao
Jasmine Zhang
Maria Ceja
Riva Madan
Angel Velez
Shilpa Kamat
Ritualist
Erika Gagnon
Dramaturgy
Cristina Lopéz Suárez and the women of Una Luz en el Camino
June 8 & 10 at Joe Goode Annex (SF)
June 16-17 at Highways Performance Space (LA)
Artistic Director
Liz Duran Boubion
Core Dancers
Rosie Dater-Merton
Catalina O'Connor
Abigail Hinson
Clairey Evangelho
Sound Design Mike Daddona
Musical compositions: Sovoso, Laura Inserra
Costumes
Jamielyn Duggan
Lighting
Zoë Klein
Artistic Contributions
Jen Hong
Lindsey Red-Tail
Stream Gao
Jasmine Zhang
Maria Ceja
Riva Madan
Angel Velez
Shilpa Kamat
Ritualist
Erika Gagnon
Dramaturgy
Cristina Lopéz Suárez and the women of Una Luz en el Camino
Cuatro Vientos Performance Lab with Piñata Dance Collective
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Cuatro Vientos Interedisciplinary Performance Lab with visiting choreographer Liz Duran Boubion and members of the Piñata Dance Collective (SF/LA).
Welcome to this community building ritual performance for women, non-binary and femme presenting dancers dedicated to healing and building solidarity for victims of gender-based violence and femicide worldwide. Location: HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE (on unceded Tongva and Chumash land) When: June 14-17, 2023. Includes Open Contemporary Classes, movement lab and an opportunity to perform. Description: Each day opens with a contemporary dance class for tuning the body followed by an experimental performance lab rooted in eco-somatic wisdom culminating in two public ritual performance installations during Cuatro Vientos: Middle of Nowhere. Read More... |
IN PRINT: Radical Aesthetics and the winds of change
"As I examine my work over the past two decades, I notice a motif of honoring the dead. This existential theme is housed in the tropes of Latinidad, especially through the lens of El Día De Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). In fact, many themes connected to grief and loss lie at the root of social and environmental change work in the arts. This labor includes memorializing family members, honoring ancestors and ancestral lands, naming victims of gender-based violence, gun violence, hate crimes, and police brutality, honoring victims of genocide, slavery, and displacement, dancing for lost waterways, fighting for clean air, crying for the forests, and mourning the extinction of animals." Liz Duran Boubion, director of Piñata Dance Collective and Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers - FLACC, ruminates on how her residency in the Mojave desert has influenced her thoughts on death and political change. Read more in Stance On Dance...
Job OpENING in FLACCThe Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) is seeking a strong leader and process oriented, self-starting team member to join our vibrant organization as Director of Marketing and Development during our 10th year anniversary. This is a project-based position, with a minimum commitment through January 1, 2024.
With the support of FLACC's organizing team, the main responsibilities include coordination of the FLACC’s social media, newsletters, marketing, development, publicity and public relations. Support with a monthly on-line archive programing June-December, Piñata Dance Collective’s production season in June 8-17, 2023, fundraising events and other community events throughout the year. |
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